Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy (Egypt)
وزارة الكهرباء والطاقة المتجددة | |
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Headquarters | Cairo Coordinates: 30°4′15″N 31°17′22″E / 30.07083°N 31.28944°E |
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Website | Official website |
The Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy of Egypt is the government ministry in charge of managing and regulating the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in Egypt. Its headquarters are in Cairo. The current minister is Mohamed Shaker.[1] The ministry was established in 1964 with presidential decree No. 147.
Electric power stations[]
An agreement was made with Siemens, a German company, to implement power stations in Beni Suef, the New Administrative Capital, and Borollos by mid 2018.[2]
High dams[]
The Aswan Dam, inaugurated in 1971, "can generate 10 billion kilowatt-hours annually.".[3]
A new high dam to pump and store water to produce electricity in Ataka was in the works in mid 2017 in conjunction with Sinohydro, a Chinese company.[2][4]
Nuclear power plant[]
In 2015, Egypt began negotiations with Russian company Rosatom, for building a nuclear power plant in Dabaa and by the end of 2016, the ministry and the company were in their final negotiations on the deal.[5][6] By 2017, negotiations were completed.[2]
Petrol discovery[]
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Eni, an Italian company is working on the large petrol field discovered in Egypt in 2015.[7]
Coal-fired plant[]
As anticipated a year before, in September, 2018, a 4.4 billion agreement was signed for the building of a 6.6 GW coal-power plant in Hamrawein, Egypt and would take at least six years to complete and become operational.[8][9] The project was mothballed in 2020.[10]
Ministers[]
# | Name | Term | |
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Start | End | ||
1 | March, 1964 | September, 1965 | |
2 | Mustafa Khalil | October, 1965 | September, 1966 |
3 | Mahmoud Younis | September, 1966 | June, 1967 |
4 | June, 1967 | March, 1968 | |
5 | November, 1970 | May, 1971 | |
6 | September, 1974 | April, 1975 | |
7 | October, 1978 | May, 1980 | |
8 | May, 1980 | October, 1999 | |
9 | October, 1999 | November, 2001 | |
10 | November, 2001 | August, 2012 | |
11 | August, 2012 | January, 2013 | |
12 | January, 2013 | February, 2014 | |
13 | Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi | February, 2014 | Incumbent |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "BREAKING: New government swears in". Cairo Post. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ a b c Farag, Mohamed (5 July 2017). "Egypt achieves electricity surplus after years of deficit". Daily News Egypt.
- ^ "Aswan High Dam". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ^ "Egypt to Build 2,000MW Water-Pumping Power Station". egyptoil-gas.com. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ Fahmy, Omar; Alsharif, Asma; Baker, Luke; Lawson, Hugh (November 19, 2015). "Egypt, Russia sign deal to build a nuclear power plant". Reuters.
- ^ Farag, Mohamed (December 8, 2016). "Electricity minister to send president memo on Dabaa negotiations next week". Daily News Egypt.
- ^ Reed, Stanley (19 October 2016). "How Eni Bet Big and Won Big on Natural Gas off Egypt". NYT.
- ^ "Chinese consortium wins contract for Hamrawein coal-fired plant". Energy Egypt.
- ^ Farid, Doaa (17 October 2017). "Hamrawein coal plant contracts to be signed in mid-2018: Minister". Egypt Today. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "Fate of Egypt's coal-fired project a sign of greener times". BusinessLIVE. April 16, 2020. Archived from the original on April 26, 2020.
External links[]
- Government ministries of Egypt
- Energy in Egypt
- Energy ministries